This trip took me to Binh Duong, Vietnam, for a leadership summit — and it was amazing and humbling to be on the stage talking to an amazing team, and watch them learn and put it into practice.
Here's the shape of the week: hundreds of leaders in one room, and behind them sixty days of groundwork. For the last two months we've been teaching them AI — and this week we turned all of that learning into real, practical applications, in person. Not slides. Builds.
The point of the gathering wasn't a kickoff. It was figuring out, together, how we're going to implement AI across the organization — not as a tool rollout, but as a change in how we work.
One thing became immediately clear in the room: the technology is easy. The people and the business process have to change too. That's the part that doesn't show up in any demo — and it's the part that decides whether any of this actually works.
Watching leaders who'd never written a line of code ship something real in a few days — that's the payoff. You can see the organization changing in real time when you give people permission to build.
And lastly — the Vietnamese know how to throw an afterparty. All that learning, then the whole room lets loose together. If you balance a hard-working week with a good evening, the team remembers both.
The technology is easy. The people and the process are the work.
Until the next run out — work hard, play hard.